We’ve all seen braille buttons and signs posted on the drive-up ATM, and many people (unfortunately) then have to mutter to their travelling companions, “hey, look at the braille on the drive-up ATM? How many blind people drive?”
Let’s be honest – the real trick is not that their are braille-labelled buttons on the drive-through ATM, but that the buttons are associated with a display screen.
There’s no braille on the screen, so how would a blind person know which button to select? Oh, we know there’s an easy answer to this, but Web Watch likes to point it out anyway. It may be practical to the blind, but to a sighted person, it just looks like bad design.
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Video Fun: What if laugh tracks never existed? What if they were everywhere?
Bag of Laughs
Have you ever wondered what TV’s popular sitcoms would be like if they didn’t have a laugh track?
That’s right – they’d be just like real life. In other words, not nearly as funny without the laugh track accompaniment telling us when it’s appropriate to laugh at others.
Let’s take a look at some TV scenes that have the laugh track removed and you’ll see what we mean:
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